News Clips
Liquid Data and the Health Information Economy: Is 2011 Finally the Year?
If health information is a sort of currency, then what we are seeing is that physicians are beginning to recognize its value. Physicians (and patients, too) are pulling for new functionality and opportunities to use health data, but for the data that really matters, patient data, they’re coming up empty. Read More »
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DSS and Hospira Win Veterans Affairs Industry Innovation Award for TheraDoc™ Clinical Surveillance System
DSS, Inc., a healthcare information technology provider, will partner with the VA and Hospira to implement the TheraDoc software as a pilot project at several VA medical centers. Read More »
Q&A: Health IT's Future is Wide Open (Source)
Open source software will have a widening role in future health IT systems, according to a report titled “Open Source, Open Standards and Health Care Information Systems,” which was first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Read More »
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Video Clips on EHR, PHR, HIE, and HIT Systems
The following are links to selected videos on YouTube about Electronic Health Record (EHR), Personal Health Record (PHR), Health Information Exchange (HIE) systems, and other useful Health Information Technologies (HIT) - Read More »
Mirth Video Presentations on the Web
Mirth is an open source solution for healthcare interoperability consisting of several modules, e.g. an HL7 messaging interface; a clinical data repository; and a master patient index (MPI). It has a robust 'open' community of developers, users, vendors, and others supporting Mirth Projects. There is a rapidly growing 'open' community of Mirth software developers, users, and vendors around the world. Watch selected video presentations from several Mirth community members that they have been posted on YouTube – click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzAOfMNxAHE Read More »
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HHS Webcast & Videos on HealthCare.Gov
A wide range of free, online videos and webcasts by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) are posted on the HealthCare.Gov web site. They cover such topics as health care legislation, health care policy, consumer health issues, changes to Medicare, and much more. See list of official HHS Video Channels
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No Forking, Says DoD Open Source Report
A new Defense Department-sponsored document urges the department to adopt more open source technology development. The document touts open source development as a way to increase innovation, agility and application security even in an environment of constrained resources.
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Key Lesson from the NPfIT
Listening to critics is critical to the success of big projects. But has this lesson been learnt? Read More »
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Open Source Visionaries
Creating, extending and maintaining modern computational tools is really hard. It used to be that a motivated person could envision a solution, knock out some code, and have a useful prototype running in a short time (days or weeks). Read More »
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OSI Open Reformation Begins in Earnest
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is creating a process for wider participation through working groups and new affiliate programmes which will influence its thinking on its future mission. The programme was unveiled at last week's Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco by OSI board member Simon Phipps. The plans are the result of the OSI's planning for reformation announced in March.
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Are High-Tech Healthcare Solutions Worth the Price?
I was...reviewing some interesting healthcare news items this week that posed an intriguing question: Do we really know what we are paying for when it comes to high-tech healthcare solutions?
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Will Money and Power in Wisconsin Politics Influence Health Care Policy?
Epic Systems came up recently when five members of a congressional delegation, including Tammy Baldwin, sent a letter to the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, asking them to consider using a commercial off the shelf system for their electronic health records solution. The letter cited Kaiser Permanente, Cedars Sinai and Cleveland Clinic as model examples – all Epic Systems installations.
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VA, DOD Lack Coordinated Health IT Plan
As the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) build their electronic medical record systems to serve veterans and active duty service members, both organizations lack a coordinated health information technology management plan to jointly address common healthcare business needs, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) official said. Read More »
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Common VA-DOD Health Record Interface Nearing Completion
The first milestone for the upcoming joint Veterans Affairs and Defense Department electronic health record platform is a common graphical user interface to be in place by July, according to W. Scott Gould, deputy secretary for the VA. Read More »
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QRISK2 Goes Open Source
The heart disease risk assessment tool QRisk2 has been made available as open source software by Nottingham University and healthcare IT suppliers EMIS. Read More »
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